{"id":64830,"date":"2012-11-16T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T06:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=64830"},"modified":"2012-11-16T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T12:22:58","slug":"e-tags-half-a-million-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/64830-e-tags-half-a-million-sold.html","title":{"rendered":"E-tags: half a million sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least 500,000 e-tags have been sold to motorists and fleet vehicle owners in Gauteng, the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral<\/a>) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“At least 500,000 have been sold: 300,000 of them have been bought by private individuals,” Sanral representative Alex van Niekerk<\/a> told a public hearing in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

His statement was met with loud boos from the public. Some people walked out of the packed hall in Sunninghill.<\/p>\n

Last month, the government and Sanral announced new tariffs for e-tolling of Gauteng’s freeways.<\/p>\n

The announcement, which was made on October 26, marked the beginning of a 30-day public consultation process, after which Transport Minister Ben Martins<\/a> would have a fortnight to “apply his mind”, followed by another fortnight to gazette the final tariffs.<\/p>\n

This means e-tolls could come into effect four days before Christmas.<\/p>\n

Van Niekerk found it difficult to go through his presentation on how to register for e-tolls and buy e-tags.<\/p>\n

He was accused of lying and assuming that residents were stupid.<\/p>\n

The e-tolls were set for looting, screamed an old man at the back of the hall.<\/p>\n

“Lies, lies, lies…” people shouted at Van Niekerk from all corners of the hall.<\/p>\n

Related articles<\/h3>\n

E-toll public hearings continue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

E-toll meetings must be attended: COSATU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

E-toll rate revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

E-toll details must be made public: OUTA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANRAL has said that around half a million e-tags have been sold ahead of the implementation of the e-tolling system in Gauteng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":47864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,6677,2068,2072],"class_list":["post-64830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-e-tag","tag-e-tags","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64832,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64830\/revisions\/64832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}